Harvard Lecture
On Thursday 27th June 2013, I was invited to deliver a guest lecture at Harvard University with my colleague Dr Martin Paul Eve (with whom I direct the Open Library of Humanities). The lecture was co-sponsored by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Mahindra Humanities Center and was co-organised by David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, and Marguerite Avery, Senior Acquisitions Editor at MIT Press for Science, Technology & Society.
Titled "Open Access and the Humanities," the lecture addressed the historical background of open access and its relevance within a rapidly changing humanities publishing landscape, discussing international challenges, issues of academic prestige, implicit standards of peer review and how these might be transformed, digital economics and possible business models, open licensing and digital methodologies, and economic models for open access monographs. The Digital Arts & Humanities at Harvard University (DARTH) also published an interview with Martin in advance of the lecture.
The lecture was accompanied by a lively twitter stream. You can view a Storify of the discsusion here (with thanks to Graham Steel for curating this).
This post has been adapted from the Open Library of Humanities website.
Image by Wally Gobetz under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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